A professional who prepares and bakes cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, or desserts, according to recipe. Respnsibilities include:

• Measures ingredients, using measuring cups and spoons.
• Mixes ingredients to form dough or batter, using electric mixer or beats and stirs ingredients by hand.
• Shapes dough for cookies, pies, and fancy pastries, using pie dough roller and cookie cutters or by hand.
• Places shaped dough portions in greased or floured pans and inserts them in oven, using long-handled paddle (peel).
• Adjusts drafts or thermostatic controls to regulate oven temperatures.
• Prepares and cooks ingredients for pie fillings, puddings, custards, or other desserts.
• Pours filling into pie shells and tops filling with meringue or cream.
• Mixes ingredients to make icings.
• Decorates cakes and pastries.
• Blends colors for icings and for shaped sugar ornaments and statuaries.
• May specialize in preparing one or more types of pastry or dessert when employed in large establishment.
• May oversee work of patients assigned to kitchen for work therapy purposes when working in psychiatric hospital.